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Master of the Polling Panels
( fl c. 1439–52). German painter. He was one of the most distinctive artists in early Bavarian painting and worked in the area around Munich and Kremsmünster. His oeuvre, which can be assembled with certainty on stylistic grounds, includes the panels of two winged altarpieces from the Augustinian monastery at Polling in Upper Bavaria, after which he is named. Four of these come from an altarpiece of scenes from the Life of the Virgin and are dated 1444. The altarpiece was donated by Duke Albert II of Bavaria (reg 1438–60) and his wife, Anna (1420–74). The surviving panels are an Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi (Munich, Alte Pin.) and a Nativity and Presentation in the Temple (Munich, Bayer. Nmus.). Two further panels come from an altarpiece of the Holy Cross; they are a Crucifixion and three scenes of the Discovery of the True Cross (Munich, Bayer. Nmus.). Four further panels from an altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin, dated 1439, are in the Stiftsgalerie, Kremsmünster. Two well-preserved panels with St Peter and St Paul are also extant (Cassani priv. col.).
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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